Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Treaty of Rome nearly nine years ago. As the tariff walls within the Six came tumbling down, trade doubled in a cornucopian flow of cars and caramels, typewriters and transistors, that made shops in the six countries part of one great international bazaar. The resulting boom fattened their gross national products by 38% since 1958 (v. 28% for the U.S.). Despite the erection of a common tariff against the outside world, the Six became the world's largest trader, and embarked, with the U.S., on the so-called Kennedy Round tariff negotiations-now stalled-designed to lower tariffs throughout...
...still refer wistfully to Wroclaw as Breslau. Bonn argues that until a reunited Germany negotiates its final World War II peace treaty with the Big Four (as called for in the 1945 Potsdam Agreement), Germany's boundaries remain those of 1937-the year before Adolf Hitler began his Gross Deutschland annexations...
...Mark Novitch, assistant physician to the UHS, who headed the investigation, said, "My firm impression is that there are variabilities, but not gross inequities in the cost of drugs in and out of the Square." He based his opinion on raw data gathered last spring which he has submitted for statistical analysis. A conclusive report, he said, should be ready within the week...
...basis of the official nine-month report and recent speeches by Kosygin, Polyansky and I. T. Novikov. Within the overall volume of industrial production, the targets for producer goods will easily be overfulfilled, while those for consumer goods (one quarter of the total) will not be met. The gross agricultural product will have grown by 7% instead of the 70% envisaged. The minimum wage was to have been increased from 27 to 35 rubles a month to 50 to 60 rubles a month; instead it has only recently been raised to 40 to 45 rubles a month...
Spain's burro-paced economy has started to gallop. Industrial output has nearly doubled in the past five years. By 1975, the country's gross national product is expected to reach $30 billion, almost twice its current $16.6 billion. As one of Europe's potential-growth speedsters, Spain has naturally attracted sizable inflows of foreign capital, which the government has welcomed. But inevitably the main job of financing Spanish business expansion must come from within the country...